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41 " I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera. "
― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)
42 " Like I always say, there's a time and a place for spontaneity. "
43 " But I thought that if people behaved like victims they would become victims, if people expected the worst to happen then it invariably did.I could see now how wrong I was. Sometimes people don't volunteer to be victims and they become victims anyway. "
44 " I was so distraught. I couldn’t understand all the different ways I was feeling. I was so confused. I did have a crush on Adam. But I felt so guilty about it because that must make me a very shallow person when I was supposed to be in love with James. But was I in love with James? I was afraid to think about that one. It was too huge to contemplate. And then I felt angry with James. Why couldn’t I flirt with Adam and have a bit of fun? But then I felt guilty again because Adam was a person, a nice person, and he deserved better than to be treated by me as some sort of ego balm. "
45 " She called Dad a bastard and made references to the regime in the house being similar to the one in Nazi Germany. But she actually went to her room. That was nothing short of miraculous. "
46 " Not that anyone ever fancied someone because they were a kind person.If that was the case Mother Teresa would have to fend them off with sticks. "
47 " Who’s in charge around here? I’d like to complain about my life. I distinctly ordered a happy life with a loving husband to go with my newborn baby and what was this shoddy travesty that I’d been served up instead? "
48 " But life was an irrepressible kind of a chap, and no matter how much I tried to pretend that he wasn’t there he kept poking his head through any gaps in my defenses and trying to get me to play with him. "
49 " I’m going to be me, whether it’s good or bad "